The CPN-UML has decided to take a proposal to the House of Representatives (HoR) on bringing the Royal Nepalese Army (RNA) under parliament and changing its name to “Nepali Army”.

Saturday’s standing committee meeting of the party demanded that the parliament take necessary steps to take action against those responsible for suppressing the people’s movement, change the name of the army and the government, annul all ordinances, orders and instructions issued by the royal regime and scrap the Raj Parishad.

Reports quoted CPN-UML standing committee member Ishwar Pokharel as saying, “The meeting entrusted the Parliament Committee (of the party) with the responsibility of taking the proposal to the House.” “The proposal may be tabled in the House soon,” Pokhrel added.

The meeting also stressed the need to immediately bring the army under the parliament and the government.

The meeting assigned Nepal and deputy prime minister K P Oli the responsibility of selecting the party leaders to be included in the council of ministers.

The meeting also finalized a list of UML central committee member Rajendra Pandey, alternative central committee member Urmila Aryal, Mangal Siddhi Manandhar and Dharma Nath Shah for sending to the government. However, the party will make public the names formally after discussing with other constituents of the seven party alliance.

The meeting also decided to include Ishwor Pokharel in a panel headed by standing committee member Jhalanath Khanal, to hold talks with various political parties, and also Bhim Rawal and Raghuji Pant in another panel headed by standing committee member Bharat Mohan Adhikari to submit recommendations on constitutional structure.

Meanwhile, a meeting of the United Left Front, chaired by Minister for Land Reforms and Management and chairman of ULF, Prabhu Narayan Chaudhary, discussed the tasks to be accomplished by the parliament and the government.

A press statement issued by the ULF said the meeting discussed the ways of effectively running the government and the parliament, talks with the Maoists and other current political issues.